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Barbara Howard's Unfolding Visual World

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Last Paintings

In the late 1990s until her death in 2002, Barbara Howard returned to her lifelong fascination with light, night skies, the reflective surface of water. In these paintings, the recurrence of circular elements, an abstraction of natural forms and a balancing of darkness and light all suggest the artist's deep feeling for the natural world and a celebration of its unity.

"The circle, sphere or mandala forms in my work often refer, sometimes obliquely, to the sun, as a symbol of the totality, the wholeness of the universe, the power of the illumined intellect over the darkness of ignorance." ~ Barbara Howard


atlas of contemplation med

Atlas of Contemplation

Dawn comes, Winter Moon lingers

Dawn comes, Winter Moon lingers

Double Rainbow, Three Islands

Double Rainbow, Three Islands

Mandala Ascendant

Mandala Ascendant

Moonrise and Tundra Swan

Moonrise and Tundra Swan

Night Sky with Whale Constellation

Night Sky with Whale Constellation

Of the Sea #1

Of the Sea #1

of the sea 2

Of the Sea #2

Ribbed Sand, Water, Golden Sun

Ribbed Sand, Water, Golden Sun

White Sun and Evening Shore

White Sun and Evening Shore


© Estate of Barbara Howard 2013
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